13th December 1642.
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Zeeland.
James Cook and Abel Tasman
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The Polynesians discovered New Zealand around the 1400s with Europeans in the person of Abel Tasman and James Cook (1700s approx.)
because besidethe Maori people Abel Janszoon Tasman was the first to diconver New Zealand. Hope this helps! T.
Abel Tasman named New Zealand after the Dutch province of Zeeland.
Abel Tasman did not discover Australia. Abel Tasman only discovered the island that he named Van Diemen's land (now the state of Tasmania) in 1642. The first known European to discover Australia was Willem Jansz, who landed on the shores of Cape York Peninsula in 1606.
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Abel Tasman discovered and named Van Diemen's land (now Tasmania) in 1642.
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